Top 10 newmusicbox.org Competitors

sequenza21.com

As the pandemic recedes in our rearview mirrors, the flow of new albums of radical music has returned to its pre-COVID level, as has the year-end ritual of Best of… lists from critics and other interested parties. Indeed, it’s that post-lockdown deluge of recorded activity, along with the resumption of live musicmaking, that saturated my inbox to the point that I’m combining two years of critical listening and Flotation Device curation into this one article, which endeavors to summarize where Western art music stands today as an integral, global practice that comprises improvised, composed and fixed-media music. Transcultural exemplars Heiner

youngcomposers.com

All works created solely from prompting.

societyofcomposers.org

dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding, and dissemination of new and contemporary music.

lafolia.com

Ornstein’s career as composer and pianist blossomed at a time when it seemed possible to express anything with music.

davidtlittle.com

Browse the complete list of compositions by David T. Little.

composersforum.org

Elijah J. Thomas presents his curated playlist of inspiring works and performances, from Nicole Mitchell, Gustav Holst, Odetta and more.

newmusicusa.org

With over thirty US orchestras signed up to one of the program’s eight consortia, Amplifying Voices facilitates co-commissions and sharing of existing repertoire of BIPOC composers with these ensembles.